The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-29
WEST AND SOuTH.

Two COUNTERFEITERs of gold and silver
coins named James Fox and Michael Hem
mer were arrested at Indianapolis, Ind, on
the ed.
ALONG the Union Pacific railway in
Utah and Wyoming heavy snowfall was
reported on the ed.
In portions of Minnesota and Dakota
snow and sleet storms occurred on the 22d.
followed by cold weather. which would
retard seed planting, already ten days or
two weeks late
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the Ma
tional Council of Administration of the
Grand Army of the Republic, in session on
the I'D in Chicago, approving of the order
of General Fairchild requesting posts not
to make an official expression of opinion on
the subject of pension legislation by Con-
gress.
A CYCLONE on the evening of the ed COM
pletely wiped out the town of Prescott,
Kan, and fifteen persons were killed and
several others wounded
ELEVEN of the Bald-Knobbers "a band of
murdersl were indicted by the grand jury
at Ozark, Mo-, on the 22d for murder.
FRANKLIN and Johnson counties, Ark,
were swept by a cyclone early on the
morning of the 23d, causing devastation in
Zank, Coal Hill and GAINESVILLE. Near the
latter place six persons were killed, TWEEN
ty others badly wounded, and the dwell
ings and barns of twenty-six persons were
blown to splinters. Considerable live
stock also persisted.
THE townships of Metz, Usage and Blue
Mound, in Vernon County, Mo-, were
swept by cyclone on the night of the
21st, and much damage done. 1t was
thought the number of persons killed
would reach twenty-five. Four members
of the Miller family persisted.
In Ohio during the last sixteen months,
1S2 natural gas ID oil companies have
been incorporated, with an aggregate cap
ital stock of So, 262, 975.
A HEAVY snow-storm occurred in North
ern Wisconsin on the 22d. Seven inches
were reported at Eau Claire and at Ash
land trains were blocked. A fierce gale
was piling the snow into drifts.
A TORNADO which passed over Blossom
Prairie, Tex, ON the 22d moved every bust
ness house in the village from their founda-
tons, No lives were lost.
SOME unknown party at Milwaukee ex-
ploded bomb in the public street at noon
on the 22d, but no person was hurt by the
flying missiles.
OFFICERS arrested eleven saloon-keepers
at Sioux City, Ia, on the oath for violating
the Liquor law
THE Straits of Mackinac were open to
navigation on the Gath, and several vessels
passed through.
A CYCLONE which passed through Wa
bash County, Ind, on the 2Sd, killed two
persons, seriously injured four others, de-
stroyed half-a-dozen farm-houses and I'M
rooted many more, and killed several head
of stock.
Ia. V. Hatfield fatally shot himself
and wife on the 2Sd at Mortimer, Kan.
The death of David Preston, q we'll
known banker, occurred in Detroit on the
24th of heart-disease, at the age of sixty
years. He was the Prohibition candidate
for Governor of Michigan in 1884.
MORE reliable reports of the destructive
storms in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Kentucky and elsewhere We're
received on the Gath. Probably score of
people persisted at Prescott, Kan, and in
Vernon County, No., there were no less
than twenty-five deaths. At other points
the mortality was not so great, but a num-
Der of people lost their lives.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, revival meet.
ing commenced on the s4th by Sam Jones